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Ins and outs

In \In\, n. Note: [Usually in the plural.]

  1. One who is in office; -- the opposite of out.

  2. A re["e]ntrant angle; a nook or corner. Ins and outs,

    1. nooks and corners; twists and turns.

    2. the peculiarities or technicalities (of a subject); intricacies; details; -- used with of; as, he knew the ins and outs of the Washington power scene.

      All the ins and outs of this neighborhood.
      --D. Jerrold.

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ins and outs

n. (context idiomatic English) The details or fine points of something.

Wikipedia
Ins and Outs

Ins and Outs is an album by Argentine composer, pianist and conductor Lalo Schifrin recorded in 1982 and released on the Palo Alto label.

Usage examples of "ins and outs".

The consul general wisely avoids upsetting her with the ins and outs of our problem, but he is fairly straight with me.

Whatever ploy he'd had in mind would have died with him, for even Hardinge wouldn't know the ins and outs of it .

But please realize, a new man on a strange world needs time to learn its ins and outs, and develop workable programs.

He was a professional naval officer, and therefore supposed to be apolitical in his outlook on the ins and outs of national security, but whoever had formulated that particular guideline must have been a monk.

STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE THROUGH YOUR HIDDEN FILES This next section is for those of you who are more interested in learning the ins and outs of your computer.

Fighting under that great hunter John Dunn he learned all the ins and outs of Native warfare and had many narrow escapes.

I will squeeze it out of him, as one of the family: he must let me know the ins and outs of it all!

I know all the ins and outs of your affairs now, my dear boy--it's not for nothing that you were so open with Pashenka when you were her prospective son-in-law, and I say all this as a friend.

He was tough, he was daring, and he knew the ins and outs of both sides of the law.

Garion knew that he needed to be alert in this strange place, and he did not want to break his concentration by pondering the ins and outs of hydraulics.